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Old 07-02-2007
Question Scripting stepping stones.
It's safe to say that I have had no scripting / programming experience before.

I took a job as an AIX / Linux administrator, and I have found myself up to my ears in bash scripting. I'm starting to really catch on, I've become a casual linux user, to a hopeful future power user. I was wondering, what's the proper stepping stones in scripting??

Once I master bash, should I proceed to perl? Or should I try python?
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Old 07-02-2007
Syndex,
Your question is very subjective as it depends on each personal's goals
in each individual carreers.
If you say you do not have much of unix shell script and programming
experience, I recommend you to stay with shell script, especially when
several concepts and commands in Perl and Python come from shell
scripts.
You will learn that unix shell scripts are a specialty in itself and no matter
how many years of experience you have, you still find new/better ways
of doing things.
Best of luck!
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Old 07-02-2007
remember the perl motto "There's more than one way to do it" Smilie
kamitsin
 
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